Amazon admits its drivers sometimes have to pee in bottles

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Amazon has posted an apology to Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) for a tweet last week denying that it makes its workers urinate in water bottles.

The controversy started with a tweet by Pocan blasting Amazon for its treatment of workers-a topic of particular public interest as workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama were voting on whether to unionize.

"Paying workers $15/hr doesn't make you a 'progressive workplace' when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles," Pocan wrote.

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